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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Glamour Girl
2. Strollin' With Bone
3. Sun Went Down, The
4. You Don't Love Me
5. Travelin' Blues
6. Hustle Is On, The - (78 RPM version)
7. Baby Broke My Heart - (78 RPM version)
8. Evil Hearted Woman - (alternate take)
9. I Walked Away
10. No Reason
11. Look Me in the Eye - (78 RPM version)
12. Too Lazy
13. Alimony Blues
14. Life Is Too Short
15. You Don't Understand
16. Welcome Blues (Say Pretty Baby)
17. I Get So Weary
18. You Just Wanted to Use Me
19. Tell Me What's the Reason
20. I'm About to Lose My Mind
21. Cold, Cold Feeling
22. News For My Baby
23. Get These Blues Off Me
24. I Got the Blues Again
25. Through With Women
26. Street Walking Woman
DISC 2:
1. Blues Is a Woman
2. I Got the Blues
3. Here in the Dark
4. Blue Mood
5. Every Time
6. I Miss You Baby
7. Lollie Lou
8. Party Girl
9. Love Is Just a Gamble
10. High Society
11. Long Distance Blues
12. Got No Use For You
13. I'm Still in Love With You
14. Railroad Station Blues
15. Vida Lee
16. My Baby Is Now on My Mind
17. Doin' Time
18. Bye Bye Baby
19. When the Sun Goes Down
20. Pony Tail
21. Wanderin' Heart
22. I'll Always Be in Love With You
23. I'll Understand
24. Hard Way
25. Teen Age Baby
26. Strugglin' Blues
Album Notes
Personnel includes: T-Bone Walker (vocals, guitar); R.S. Rankin, Walter Nelson (guitar); Edward Hale, Wendell Duconge, Lee Gross (alto saxophone); Jim Wynn (tenor & baritone saxophones); Eddie Davis, Maxwell Davis, Lee Allen (tenor saxophone); Herb Hardesty (baritone saxophone); Eddie Hutcherson, Dave Bartholomew, John Lawton (trumpet); Zell Kindred, Marl Young, Willard McDaniel, T.J. Fowler (piano); Buddy Woodson, Billy Hadnott, Frank Fields, Henry Ivory (bass); Robert Sims, Oscar Lee Bradley, Cornelius Coleman, Clarence Stamp (drums).
Recorded in Los Angeles, California, New Orleans, Louisiana and Detroit, Michican between 1950 and 1954. Includes liner notes by Pete Welding.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
An important (and often underrated) guitarist, T-Bone Walker was a direct influence on B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, and nearly everyone who played the electric guitar in his wake. A pioneer of the fleet, jazzy leads (complete with choppy, syncopated accents, "duck walk" single-note runs, and blazing embellishments) that would come to characterize rock and blues guitar thereafter, Walker's contribution is difficult to overestimate. THE COMPLETE IMPERIAL RECORDINGS is arguably the Walker set to buy since it contains--with the exception of his trailblazing sides for Black and White Records--the bulk of his most important material.
Whether on mid-tempo strollers ("Travelin' Blues"), boogie-woogie numbers ("The Hustle Is On"), smoldering slow blues ("Blues Is a Woman"), or jump blues ("Bye Bye Baby"), Walker and his band infuse traditional 12-bar structures with a keen sense of swing, instrumental interplay, and sophistication. At times, as on the energetic "Strollin' with Bone," the sheer vitality of Walker's performance is palpable, and is very close in feel to the rock & roll (especially where Walker's guitar playing is concerned) that would emerge in subsequent years. This dynamic set of early electric blues captures the music at one of its richest, most definitive turning points.
Industry Reviews
...eloquently indicates the monumental significance of T-Bone Walker's classic period...
5 Stars - Excellent - ..a sampling of Walker's raw and expressive R&B steeped in traditional blues and flavored by swing...
Down Beat (02/01/1992)
4.5 Stars - Excellent Plus - ...[For] guitar innovators, Walker wrote the book....catches Walker at his peak...These are timeless performances - there's not a mediocre track in the set...
Rolling Stone (11/14/1991)
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